Guild Wars 2

I totally agree.

Mystic forge.
Fractals.
portals from mysts and WvWvW
All festivals take place here
Transit point from and too allmost all regions
Close by all 3 order headquarters
Dungeon armor guys
only town with jumping puzzles.

LA is just too unique and therefore too active.

I have made a suggestion a few months ago and I think it is still important.

a: Make the Portal island an instance. There has also been suggestions to make an travle to la instant button (or stone like the HoM stone). From the portal island (wich should load in 5 seconds cause it is a personal instance that is very small) you can choose to enter the big city or go to another town. This way all the transit traffic is being kept out of the city. Just place a portal on the bridge from the island to the rest of the city and your done.

b: Make Mistlock Observatory a public area instead of an instance. It already has services like merchants and all. So make that the place where people doing the fractal dungeons can gather. just add a bank (or crafting stations) and your done.

Together with stopping more content in LA would make it turn down to a place with a loading time thats a quarter of what it is now.

bring back Embark Beach..!

this has some point..

Yep, fully agree.

When the patch went live I literally gasped at the decision to make the new dungeon in LA again.
Im in a overflow most times in LA anyway, since the start of the pirates event I havnt seen the main server at all.
Dragon bash is now Lag bash…

I dont understand why each holiday has to be focused around LA either.. OK yes its the main city, however it would make alot more logistical sense (in terms of game design) to center them around the racial cities – Have decorations and stuff in LA still, but have the mini-games and features of the event happen in a racial or two. Would obviously help the issue regarding lack of reason to visit each city.

When SAB was around, it was amazing to see so many people in rata sum. I want the same for DR, as thats the most wasted potential iv ever come across in a games world design.

I do assume though, considering LA is beginning to become cramped with content (ok dung wont stay BUT moa racing will), Anet will start fleshing out the racials when appropriate. I like the fact they added a perma mini game in there, lets hope they reach DR and give us target shooting sometime soon.

I begged them not to put ANY dungeon inside ANY town back when the addition of the Fractals dungeon meant I went into the overflow every time I came into LA.

100% agree. Keep dungeons out of towns, especially LA, especially with no LFG tool.

LA is the central HUB of the game. that is why it gets all the holiday stuff. you are just going to have to get use to it

Krosslite.1950:

LA is the central HUB of the game. that is why it gets all the holiday stuff. you are just going to have to get use to it

LA has (most) of the holiday stuff currently. Fine.

The pirates are not “holiday stuff”. There is no reason they couldn’t have located them in Bloodtide Coast or another suitable area.

We do not have to “get used to” everything. We have a suggestions forum to have a voice and possibly get things changed. We don’t like dungeons in major cities, so we are asking for a change in future policy. I refuse to take your defeatist “there’s nothing we can do” attitude since we are doing something.

Hamfast.8719:

Krosslite.1950:

LA is the central HUB of the game. that is why it gets all the holiday stuff. you are just going to have to get use to it

LA has (most) of the holiday stuff currently. Fine.

The pirates are not “holiday stuff”. There is no reason they couldn’t have located them in Bloodtide Coast or another suitable area.

We do not have to “get used to” everything. We have a suggestions forum to have a voice and possibly get things changed. We don’t like dungeons in major cities, so we are asking for a change in future policy. I refuse to take your defeatist “there’s nothing we can do” attitude since we are doing something.

it is more of a realist attitude

ANet doesn’t care if your SSD doesn’t load LA (or any other area) fast enough however I do agree with you.

Can’t agree more on Divinity’s Reach, it’s one of the best looking (Ghost Towns) in the game, adding something permanent to that place would revive it a bit.

Krosslite.1950:

Hamfast.8719:

Krosslite.1950:

LA is the central HUB of the game. that is why it gets all the holiday stuff. you are just going to have to get use to it

LA has (most) of the holiday stuff currently. Fine.

The pirates are not “holiday stuff”. There is no reason they couldn’t have located them in Bloodtide Coast or another suitable area.

We do not have to “get used to” everything. We have a suggestions forum to have a voice and possibly get things changed. We don’t like dungeons in major cities, so we are asking for a change in future policy. I refuse to take your defeatist “there’s nothing we can do” attitude since we are doing something.

it is more of a realist attitude

Realist attitude or not, the guy has a major point.

Also, other than the fact that LA is the main city, there is still absolutely NO reason (other than lore straw clutching, ‘it makes sense’ isnt definitive in a fantasy mmorpg) that holidays and events need to be focused around LA.

It’s really pretty lame and lazy that everything always goes down at Lion’s Arch, so yeah I have to agree.

Nadeen.6371:

There is about a million different cities and areas you can add content to.
LA takes 9 years to load on an SSD these days because of Fractals and Dragon Bash.
Now you add the new Dungeon there as well.

If you want people to visit other areas of you game then add the content there.

Since the Aetherblades are pirates then there is no excuse not to have the dungeon located in Gendarran Fields, Bloodtide Coast or Sparkfly Fen.

LA is the central location that we can get to our bank and tp for free.

Please leave it free of more content.

Divinity’s Reach is a gorgeous city that it’s beauty is wasted and no one actually goes there unless you are currently leveling a human and doing some personal story there.

Use it.

Your Example with pirates is very wrong and sort of odd o.O
Please read the Sea of Sorrows novel and re-visit your example….or bother to notice that New LA (current LA) was founded by pirates for pirates.

Your point though is still valid, they should explore moving stuff to other cities.

Non Major holidays / non pirate themed should not be in LA

Stuff that should be in LA:
-Halloween (Guild Wars Tradition)
-Wintersday (Guild Wars Tradition)
-Talk Like a Pirate Day (Guild Wars Tradition)

Dragon festival I really don’t have a major problem with, we cant visit kn, and LA is a city of pirates who use to visit kn to trade and plunder along their way. (read sea of sorrows)

but events like Karka, Refugee, and what not should have been re-allocated to cities like Divinities Reach, Grove, or Rata Sum.

You have good and valid points but your example of no pirate events in a city that is 100% about pirates, founded by pirates for pirates was sort of a head scratcher lol

i tend to avoid LA, most of the time i use queensdale, i have a mystic forge node so thats that taken care of, queensdale has crafting stations so i can use that for my bank, every area has some form of merchant, and its even got the tp near the bridge opening to DR. LA i only really use when personal story or a major event is placed there, otherwise i tend to avoid it.

Yes great idea. Do this. Im just posting to keep this thread alive long enough for anet to see it.

Completely agree with OP.

Same tired of LA 24/7 no wonder everyone afk’s there, completely agree OP.

lol I made the post and never gotten back to check it. A friend of mine told me yesterday that he agrees with me about not using LA all the time and mentioned that he saw the post here.

Glad I’m not the only one that think they should stop using LA for all content.

The tent in DR is a prime example not to use LA as well as Labyrinthine Cliffs.

Keep it up Anet.

It would be awesome as well if Fractals got moved. Maybe to Southsun Cove? It came out with it so it makes sense for it to be there.

As for the pirate comments, yes LA was founded by pirates but not all pirates need to be based off LA. In Bloodtide Coast for example plus the other areas I mentioned in my OP, we see lots of pirate concentrations and caves, etc….

I dont mind Tir Na Nog(DAOC) or Britain(UO) But no, seriously, the mystic flush should be in stalled at all starting cities. My hopes is Southsun opens or Builds up the resort into more of a resort for these events to happen from. Excluding Holiday traditions.

All the cities needs remapping for more spreaded population and for better design.
LA needs it the most – All the players are concentrated at a straight line Bank to TP

If I would be an Arenanet Dev, I would remap all the buildings from scratch.
We need more pirate style places where we can spread.
In the cave, scavenger style buildings, huge boats, etc.
So people can chose where they want to do their buisness, and the places they want to “socialize”. Waterpipes & pillows, dragon style canthan stuff –
Just to mention some in a hurry.

I personally don’t have this problem. Being over-privileged I don’t have any kind of loading issues or lag etc. with LA or any other area in GW2.

Butt… <— hehe, butt

I do see where OP is coming from, and I have noticed how empty the racial capitals are starting to look. More events in other parts of the world is a good idea. LA is really starting to get old and it would be nice to see events held in other cities like the Grove, or Black Citadel, etc. especially if they were to add permanent content to the cities that fleshed them out a bit, and gave them more of a purpose than a personal story hub from 1-15 and a maze to run around and – as previously stated in this thread- “clutch as lore straws”.

god please yes please STOP adding stuff in LA. I log into that city and can go make a cup of tea in the time it takes to actually get out of the load screen. This is tea via heating water in an electric kettle.

My system’s not a monster but it’s not ancient tech either and the MBps is good quality. It just takes the day after Ragnarok to load that place and then enjoy all of the models playing RAM catch up with my vid card to see more than floating weapons and a locked POV.

Would kill for some stuff in Hoelbrak and I don’t even play a Norn! Rata Sum’s simple in the lay out. Perfect for fun stuff. The Adventure Box was great but hardly in a place to really explore the city.

Grove needs love as much as any city, especially the bottom and the inn.

+No waypoint cost in cultural cities

There is a thing called “Culling”.
It is a methood to prevent FPS drops…

In cities like LA, you may don’t see the models of players until your PC didn’t finished loading them. And a lot of user has weak PCs that can’t handle the game well…
In a bigger patch, Arenanet allowed to see the character names, so you know who stands where. Useable in WWW too, since you’re more likely able to damage them.

Anyway, over-privileged places are the consequence of underdesigned maps.
As I’ve mentioned a lot of times, and still will until they don’t make it properly, a redesign of maps will solve this issue.

Otherwise you can see an actual work here in Divinity’s Reach, as a try of making it more populated. What we need? Check it here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/iR-Living-Breathing-World